Dendrophidion crybelum CADLE, 2012
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Dendrophidion crybelum
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Synonym | Dendrophidion crybelum CADLE 2012 Dendrophidion vinitor — SAVAGE 1973: 14 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — SAVAGE 1980: 92 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — COTT et al., 1983: 372 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — SAVAGE & VILLA 1986: 17, 148, 169 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — LIEB 1988: 171 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — VILLA et al., 1988: 63 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — LIEB 1991: 522.1–522.2 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — AUTH 1994: 16 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — LEE 1996, fig. 164 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — SAVAGE 2002: 655–656 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — GOLDBERG 2003: 298– 300 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — STAFFORD 2003: 111 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — SOLÓRZANO 2004: 236–239 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — GUYER & DONNELLY 2005: 185 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — MCCRANIE et al., 2006: 147– 148 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — KÖHLER 2008: 215 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — SAVAGE & BOLAÑOS 2009: 14 (part.) Dendrophidion vinitor — MCCRANIE 2011: 111 (part). Dendrophidion crybelum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 225 |
| Distribution | Costa Rica, Panama Type locality: Finca Las Cruces, near San Vito de Java, 4 km S San Vito, 1,200 m elevation, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: LACM 148599, an adult male. Collected in September 1972 by James E. DeWeese and Ron T. Harris. Figs. 2C, 12, 14B in Cadle 2012. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Dendrophidion crybelum is characterized by (1) dorsocaudal reduction from 8 to 6 occurring posterior to subcaudal 40 (range, 42–58); (2) single anal plate; (3) low subcaudal counts (<120 in males and females); (4) black-edged pale crossbands on the neck nearly always more than one scale row wide; (5) pale crossbands continuing to the vent but posteriorly tending to become invested with dark pigment, forming a lateral and vertebral series of ocelli within dark bands; (6) in adults, a tendency for small dark spots and flecks on subcaudals and posterior ventrals; (7) a relatively long cylindrical hemipenis with a large number of spines (>70) and a short, nonbulbous apex ornamented with freestanding membranous ridges. The combination of few subcaudals and a single anal plate will distinguish D. crybelum from all other species of Dendrophidion except D. vinitor, D. apharocybe, and D. paucicarinatum. (CADLE 2012: 210) |
| Comment | Distribution: not known from Panama with certainty, but the closest locality in Costa Rica is only ~1 km away from the Panamanian border, hence most likely in Panama too (S. Lotzkat, pers. comm., 23 Dec 2015). Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). |
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